November 17, 2025 • 32 mins
Mr. Fantasy Talks Retro Vibes, Viral Hits & Staying Present!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's help us up. I'm Crystal wil Sas.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
This is our Z one hundred Artist Interview Lounge presented
by Celsius Energy Drinks. Today there's a new name taking
over the music world, and no one can quite pin
him down. With his retro flair, hypnotic visuals and a
sound that's both nostalgic but also brand new, Mister Fantasy
has become one of the most talked about breakout artists
this year. Debut single Mister Fantasy racked up over six
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million streams, two hundred million views, and thirteen million likes
in just a few weeks, and now his follow up
single Way You Wanna is lighting up dance floors and
feeds around the world, proving that the mysterious self made
artist is.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
More than just a viral moment. It's a movement.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Featured in Forbes, Billboard, Teen, Vogue, People Magazine, and set
to perform at this year's Amaze. He's a Thanksgiving Day
Preid right here in New York City. He is redefining
what it means to build a global career completely independently.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So who is he?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Where did he come from? How did he bring Mister
Fantasy to life?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yes, pin me down. You cannot do you know what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And Krusty Lipsey will not.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
You can try. Yeah, my lift do you get quite
shopped all the time. But I told John on the
way here, I said, can you buy me some trapstick
before I go in there? And he said we're running late.
And I said, John, just do as I please, Just
do as I say. Please. No, I am very appreciative
for you. He's a very good man. John. He directs
all my videos, he cuts them up and stuff like that,
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and he's very good at what he does. Yeah, he's learning.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Except for that hat. I could do without the hat.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
What's wrong with the hat? Was that? What was that
hat with it?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's a Dodgers hat and a New Yorker and and
now born again Yankee fan.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, there's anything you want to know about John is
that he loves baseball. He absolutely loves it.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well, I want to get into you.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I mean, we want to talk about your first single
that dropped this year, congratulations, and how everyone.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Is loving it and loving the vibe and getting a
lot of positive feedback.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah. I feel it feels amazing. Yeah, I mean I
didn't really have any expectation when it came to how
it was going to be received and stuff like that.
I was just very happy to be in Los Angeles
at that point in time, which was about four months
ago when I first got had, and I was very
happy to be there and just doing what I love,
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which is to make music. And I released the song
and sort of you know when I when I I
always saw myself when I'm releasing something, it now has
nothing to do with me anymore, and the creation that
has been made is then on its way doing its
own thing. And then when I heard about all the
people that have been listening to it, yes, I felt
so happy. My heart was very full, and it is
still very full, which is why, you know, as you
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said before on the social media and stuff like that,
I want to be as as present as I possibly
can for my fans. Do you know what I mean?
I'm close and personal and that's the relationship that I
want to have with people in a general way, do
you know what I mean? Honestly, it gets frustrating sometimes
when I'm on my phone, I'm on TikTok and I'm
looking all these people because I just want to I
just want to be there with them, do you know
what I mean, but I can't, but it will have
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to suffer suffice say, do you I mean? But yeah,
that's basically I respect this. You have a great last infectious, infectious,
and your favorite color is pink.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I do enjoy pink. I do enjoy pink.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I like pink too. I like pink too.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I want to feel it back when you were growing up,
Like what were your parents listening to in the house?
Is your family listening to? Where you're getting your your nostalgia, baby,
inspiration from as you were growing up.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
My parents left at a very young age, and I
was raised by my nan and she loved music, particularly records.
She had a record play, She had a few of them.
She was quite a audio file. She loved sound and
she loved music, and we would dance about the house,
you know, before she had to move into the SENI
living and the music that she had often playing that
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I get a lot of inspiration from is like confunction, earth,
wine and fire. She loved David Bowie, she loved Johnny Cash,
Michael Jackson. I love Michael Jackson, a lot of Asis, disco,
you know, movement. When I think of that era, I
think of color, I think of movement. I think of hips,
I think of thrusting, I think of humping, I think
of licking, I think of snorting, I think of all
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of these brilliant things smiling. Do you know what I mean?
When I think about the Asies, I think a big,
big smile. When I think about the nineties, I think
more of a you know what I mean. But I
want to be a part of the music that I
want to make comes from comes from a very honest place,
and my goal with with my music is for it
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to remain authentic. My process is very sacred to me,
and I don't want anyone to be able to get
in the way of that because it's a collaboration between
me and my higher power being God. And by God,
I don't mean the sky Daddy with the golden beard
looking down upon us. I mean the great cosmic beast
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that connects all things, and that is where I get
mine operation from. And that cosmic beasts, by the way,
lives in each and every one of us. He's in you.
He's in you, he's in you, she's in you, she's
in you, she's in me. And what have we perceived
that to be is unique to us?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You said that you are really cautious about the process
of when you're making music, that you don't want anything
to interfere with that. So how do you how do
you put those boundaries up? Like, what does that look
like for you in a room?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's very simple. I don't let anyone tell me how
to write a song. I don't let anyone give me feedback.
I don't play my song to anyone. When when I'm
in the process of making my song and people say
can we hear it? Absolutely not. I don't play to anyone,
not even John. I give John the file when it's
ready for it to be mixed, for it to go
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to Flow. The only person really is Flow my producer.
Other than that, no one, and he's I've had a
very stern word with him too, to keep it very confidential.
Everything else is open. Do you know what I mean?
But that is my heart, It's my beating heart. And
when I give someone my song, I'm giving you my
beating heart. And and when you give me your beating heart,
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I'm not gonna I'm not gonna look at it and
I'm gonna say, oh, can you go back and just
make a little tweak on that. Can you go back
and change that line? Because that's who you are. Why
would I want to change who you are to work
for me. Doesn't work like that. That's what art is,
and that's what I think. The problem that we have
these days is you have a lot of people giving
feedback who, by the way, are not even practicing any
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form of art. They're up sitting in a sky tower
looking down upon everyone, saying, you must listen to my voice.
But what have you got to show for it? Mate?
What have you done right? What have you released into
the world? Have you shown me or anyone your heart?
It takes a lot of balls, you know, artists who
create and show people their hearts. It's a very very
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what's the word, It's very vulnerable and we mustn't look
past that. We mustn't look past that. And that's why
right now I'd like to abstain, at least for today,
from a label, because I don't feel right now that
I need it. I don't feel I need other voices
in my head. I've got enough as it is, do
you know what I mean? Always whispering to me in
my dreams, and I don't need I don't need that
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kind of thing. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeah, I do know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And I also want to go to what you responded
when someone asked you where mister fantasy came from. You said,
mister fantasy represents the dreams and aspirations of those who
don't believe in themselves.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Right, yes, yes, I said that. I did I say that.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You did say that.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, well that's correct, that would be correct. Yeah. No,
because I say a lot of things, you know what
I mean. I can't often keep track of it, but yeah,
that's that's the gist, and it's the gist of it,
because mister fantasy, to mister fantasy is a fantasy. Do
you understand that? It means that every song I can
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jump into another fantasy. The next song that I'm releasing,
I'm inhabiting a certain fantasy living out through the video
that I tell John. I say, I want to be
a man with no shoes who lives in a tree
with three monkeys, and he will make that happen for me.
And that's the fantasy and you can have. That's the
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thing about a fantasy, isn't it's It's it's called unlimited possibility.
Anything is possible. With mister Fantasy. We all have that
opportunity in our lives to live out whatever dream that
we want. When where kids, we're constantly fantasizing, why do
we stop? I don't know. Ask yourself that.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It's true. I think so that's exciting.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
And why do you think I go around sniffing things?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I'll tell you why. It's because I'm a very curious man,
and I want to get to know things on a
very personal level. And I often can't resist when I
see a beautiful girl like you and I'm hugging you
and I can feel your love and I smell something
What is that? And I'm now I now know you
on a much deeper level, do you I mean, because
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I've sniffed you. And I think that's why. You know,
animals connect with each other in a way, in a
much less judgmental way, Do you know what I mean?
Because because they're they're connecting with each other based off
of feel, off of touch, off of lick, off of sniff,
and mister Fantasy interacts with his life and world in
the same way if I was would you rather be
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deaf or blind?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
That's a hard one.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I don't know, that's a hard one. I think maybe dead.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, right?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Is that a lame answer?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
No? Absolutely not, that's your answer.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Do you ask you all that? A lot?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I do because I'm fascinated by the question. And I
have met, you know, people who who are aren't able
to see, and I've met people who are unable to hear,
and it's a very very interesting when you get to
hear their perspective on the way that they interact with life.
And if I had to, I would be I would
one hundred percent, hands down be blind. And of course,
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you know, we mustn't talk about it, you know, in
such a candid way like that, because people do live
like that. And it's because one, I just couldn't fathom
a life without being able to hear. And also because
imagine if you just close your eyes right now with
me and imagine that this is your reality, and now
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touch the table, yeah, and touch something else. I feel it,
sniffy air. Your sense now is you're relying upon more
of the spirit of whatever it is you're doing because
you can't actually look at it. You can't make a
judgment based off its appearance. And as human beings, we've
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been conditioned when we look at things we meet, you
make a judgment of it. And if we're just relying
on our hearing, on our touching, on our looking, on
our smelling, we're gathering more important information than we would
by just seeing something's apparent. We're getting to the very
essence of what that thing is, and we haven't made
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a judgment on what it looks like. So you're having
a very honest connection with whatever, with the world around you. Anyway,
these are the types of things that I think about
at night. Keep me up, you know what I mean.
But I'm fascinated by that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, well, the vibe of that comes out with your
music and the types of vibes that you give through
that heart, the beast in your heart with your music.
And we hear like a groove when we hear that
eighties smile.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You're drawing for us.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
So when did you decide that music was going to
be your creative art way to throw this vessel of
your insides out.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I've always been musicians. I've always been musicianus. That's always
been my my the medium that I prefer. And if
I wasn't a musician, you know what I mean, If
I if I if I wasn't a musician, I'd just
be listening to music constantly, which I already am. But
you know what I mean, Like, I just love music
and I love moving and so yeah, what was the
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question again? I forgot?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Just like, how did you decide that music was going
to be your vessel?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
For I didn't really decide it, do you know what
I mean? It's just it's just we all, we all
have a compelling activity of which is our true calling.
We all have it, and it is our responsibility as
human beings to uncover, to seek it, to find it,
and to give it to the world, to offer that
particular genius to the world, because that's what we were
born to do, I think, and by doing that, a
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lot of things follow when we do that, because we're
engaged in something that means something instead of being distracted
by other things. You know, a lot of people will
be trying to fix situations around them before, you know,
focusing on themselves, do you know what I mean? And
all we have to do is find that thing that
means something to us and nothing better than another. I
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met Kiki, you know, down the hallway and she was cleaning,
and she was brilliant, you know what I mean? And
she was doing such a good job. I said, how
have you learned how to do that so well? You
know what I mean? Everyone has a particular thing that
they're very good at that you can zone in on.
That's why I think humanity and the world is just brilliant.
I'm absolutely obsessed with it. I'm obsessed with it.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
And how do you feel seeing that your art now
is getting so much love? I mean, in just a
few weeks, the followers are going up, recognition is going up,
the love that you're giving is also coming back to
So what has that change been like for you?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah, it's been It's been great. It's been great. Yeah,
I I you know, I think it's great. Yeah, I mean,
how can I not think it's great? I mean, it's
amazing to feel validated in that way. And at the
same time, you know, I know that it is exactly
as it should be, do you know what I mean?
The music is doing exactly as it should be doing.
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And I don't really look at how well things go.
I don't look at that kind of stuff. I'm more
engaged in where I am right now, you know, And
that's something that I've tried very very hard my whole
life to do to be present, to be with whoever
I'm with, and do not think about anything else. And
that that's something that I practice every day. I wake
up in the morning and I look at myself in
the mirror and I think yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
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and then off, I oh, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yes in what sense?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Like?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
What does that mean to you?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Like saying is I'm saying yes to life. I'm saying
yes to mister fantasy, and I'm saying yes to my reality.
Otherwise I'm antagonistic to it. I'm following. I'm following wherever
the world takes me, and that's what I like to do.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yes, you're saying how you really protect your space and
when you create. I'm so thankful that you're trying to
stay on chap It's hard in here, too dry, so
that you try to keep it really sacred, the space
and you create. And we saw your collab with Florian Guillo.
How did that happen and why did you just decide
that was going to be someone to well?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I found him on I found him on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Cool, just scrolling.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah, and the first thing that I saw of him
was him playing the drums like an absolute primate. Do
you know what I mean? He is a monkey of
when it comes to playing drums, and by that that's
a very high compliment. And I thought, wow, he's got
the groove, do you know what I mean? He's got
the rhythm. And I didn't really know anyone else, and
I was just trying to find people on Instagram when
I first came out here that could help me with
my music. And he hadn't really produced. He when I
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was talking to him, he said, yeah, I'm signing to
produce now. He was just playing drums in other bands
and stuff. He's a very, very highly sought after drummer.
And I said, well, I've got a bunch of songs, mate,
I've got a very heavy sack of songs that I'm
ready to work on and ready to have produce right now.
They're already written. I just want to come in. We
can lay it down and get it, get it done
and stuff like that. And it's a collaborational, do you
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know what I mean. It's a collaboration, and you trust
the people that you work with, hopefully, but you have
to step out, you have to take a risk in someone,
but it's a general vibe. And we met and he's French,
and I do love the French, do you know what
I mean? They're very romantic beasts and they go straight
to the heart of what they're doing and they're not
afraid for a little bit of confrontation, do you know
what I mean? So I love that. And he's a
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weird guy at the end of the day, he's a
very weird guy. I will say that. You think you think,
you know a lot of people think that I'm weird,
Wait till you meet this monkey, do you know what
I mean? He's an absolute bab boon. Yeah, Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
That's cool that you just like loved his work and
then with him and started.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah, that was a divine thing, you know. And I
believe that, you know, I was led to him by
the powers that be because his taste is absolutely magnificent. Yeah,
and the fact that he is also you know, he's
a dreamer and you hear it. You know, when I
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give him the songs, he takes him to another level,
do you know what I mean? He takes him to
a place that I wouldn't be able to take myself,
you know. What I mean. He adds his flavor, adds
his touch, and that's why he's a great producer. And
I wish him the very best in his life. And
not that you know I'm going to depart from him
anytime soon. I will never depart from my Flowy and Flow.
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If you listen to this, I want you to know
I love you very much, Montfree and I'll probably be
seeing you in a few days. Do you know what
I mean?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
No, I want to talk about your second single because
after your first one did really well, it's kind of
a lot of pressure to follow up with that. So
why did you pick this exact one to be your
second showcase? Why is there a lot of pressure because
if you do something really well, your hope is is
for it to go well again. Well most people, Yeah,
I know, for you, you're just working on you know.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I wasn't meaning that. Yeah, I just mean that I
don't feel that pressure and and I don't feel it
because I I the connection I have with my fans
is beyond just loving a song, you know what I mean.
It's you know, although the music is very special, I'm
not making the music for people to like it, making
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the music because I like it. And there's a lot
people out there, I'm sure who don't like it, and
that's absolutely fine. There's a lot of music out there
that I don't like either. That's called being a human being.
And if everything we all made was brilliant, and that's
the world that I don't want to live in.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
What do you do to relax and in your own space?
Or is your world right now encompassed by music?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
And I don't really relax, do I? John, do I relax?
I've kind of just portable absolutely all the time. It's
very hard for me to sit silp uh. And I
am working on that. I'm working on that. I'm working
on that. My nan used to say to me, stop
eating so fast, you know what I mean, You're inhaling
your food. And that's just sort of the way the
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speed in which I like to live. That's why I
wanted to come to La do you know what I mean? Oh? Man?
The place I came from, Harrogate, slow, slow, Everyone's just
drinking and stuff, you know what I mean. I love
Harrogate and I love England. The English are my favorite people.
But it's a very slow pace. You know, people are, man,
how are you doing that man. You know what I mean,
it's that the northern accent which I had to get
rid of when I moved over because I didn't want
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to have that sort of accent. Do you know what
I mean? Not that it's bad, but I didn't want
to have that accent. Do you know what I mean?
That's not it's just like it's just like good. You know,
they talk like, you know, very very strangely.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Okay, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So you're just on the go on, the go on
the gore. Any hobbies or things that you like to
do that don't involve music.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yes, I play frisbee about once every two days. I
go out and play frisbee. Sometimes I pull John with me.
Otherwise I'm playing by myself or I usually find someone
there to play with. Everyone's usually down, you know what
I mean. If you ask him to throw a frisbee,
it's very You don't really find people to say no,
do you know what I mean? How could you say no?
Do that? But John comes out with me every now
and then when we play on the field over in
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Griffith Park and frisbee. I love to drink coffee very much,
so coffee is my favorite thing in the whole world
other than Guinness. Other than Guinness, I think it is.
And I'm on TikTok all day. Yeah, one TikTok. If
I'm not in the studio, I'm on TikTok talking to
fans and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Do you have some of your favorite creators on TikTok
or YouTubers or streamers.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
That you've been I only follow James Franco fan pages,
you know what I mean. I don't know why James
Frago doesn't have a TikTok. I don't know why he
doesn't have one, but I follow all the James Franco
fan pages because I like to get all the recent
news and updates on stuff like that up from him.
Have you met him, I've never met him before. No,
I'd love to meet him. I mean I'm constantly talking
about it too. I just would love to meet him.
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I think he's absolutely amazing, very inspiring character, very like
a silver back gorilla. I bet I hope he does
at least anyway, that's the that's the fantasy that I
have when I'm in bed at night, you know, sort
of thinking about Jane fragg I'm thinking about a bass
like it from silverback gorilla, do you know what I mean?
Just just just a just a beast.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It's so interesting that you smell most people that you meet.
Is there anything that you've learned about people and their
smells and connecting to their vibes.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Oh yeah, definitely, definitely. Well I'm more smell orientated, and
I will remember your smell, for example, for a for
quite a while, for quite a while. Yeah, my will. Yeah. Okay,
I don't know if that's Oh no, it's very good. Okay,
it's very good. It hit me like a ton of
bricks a Yeah, in a very positive way. And because
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you smell very good and people smells, that's part of
who you are. Yeah, very good, I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And it also I heard that it repels or attracts love.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah, that I Well, why do you think dogs go
around sniffing stiff each other's bottoms?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Interesting?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You know, I mean, they sniff them and they licked them.
And I said this the other day, it's because they
want to get to know what is happening on the inside.
That's why they sniff their urine, and that's why they
sniff each other's poos and stuff like that. You know
what I mean. They want to They want to know
what's happening inside the body, the biology of that. I'm
very interested in things like that. Monkeys are the same way.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Did you learn about that? Like, did you study it
a little bit?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I read a lot of and I watched a lot
of natural geographic but I've read a lot about I
think there's a book called Hunt the Beast, and it
talks about many, you know, different animals in the way
that they connect to each other and stuff like that.
But animals, you know, are very interesting to me also
because they are the most similar thing to me to
like children. Do you know what I mean That they're
very unaware of themselves. If a monkey walked in there
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would all be glued to it, you know what I mean.
You wouldn't be looking at me anymore, You'd be look
at the monkey because you don't know what's going to happen.
You don't know. And some of the great actors, like
James Franco, for example, when I watch him, it's like
I'm watching an animal unpredictable. I don't know what's going
to happen next. And actors I feel like a striving
for that. They're striving to get that because what you
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want to have a performance where people are glued to you,
And James Franco does that. To me, I'm absolutely mezarized
by him.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Interest.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Do you think he's a good looking guy.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I think he's still a good looking Yeah, me too.
He's not my type, but I think he's good.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
He's my type.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
The interesting thing that you brought up about animals is
that they also convibe to music.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Like you see the videos of like Parents, like barbing
a Lot.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah. Absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
So when it comes to you in the world of music,
do you look super super far ahead or you try
to stay present in that as well.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
No, I don't look far ahead at all. I don't
look far ahead at all. Yeah, just one song at
a time. Each song to me is like an album.
Every time I release a song, it's like I'm releasing
an album because it's a universe. One song can be
a universe. One song is a universe, especially mister Fantasy's realm,
because I like to create a piece of cinema with
each song. I like to create a character for each song,
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and there is a story behind each and every one
of them, and I have a full bag of them.
I'll say that a full bag.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
So when people ask you, like, do you plan on
putting out a full project or do you plan on
that's releasing one at a time, Like, what is your
thought on that?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yeah? I mean I don't know what the expectation is
to have an album When people keep asking me that,
I don't. I don't get why everyone makes albums. I
don't know why people do that. Can you tell me
why people do that?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Maybe I'll tell you. Probably why is for financial reasons,
because it sells better. I don't want right now today.
I don't want to make an album because every other
man and his monkey has made an album. I would
rather just keep writing songs, which I have many, and
release them as I please, when I please, how I please.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
What about the performing aspect of it on stage in
front of fans, how does that make you feel well?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I had my first performance on Venice Boulevard last week,
which is which is fantastic. I rocked up and I
had John sort of record me, and yeah, that was
my first performance. I'm doing another performance very very very
very soon of somewhere that is a secret place. The preparation,
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I don't really prep I don't prep for anything I
really don't prep for anything ever. I'm prepped. I wake
up prepped.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I need to tell my boss that I.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Woke up prepped. I woke up prepped. I love that.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
And then the movie These Thanksgiving Dave Fred.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Here very excitent, Yeah, very very pumped about back.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
How did you react when you found out that you
booked that?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Well, you know, all these things come through John, and
so when he told me about it, I was like, Okay,
who's Macey? And she was saying blah blah blah, because
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I mean, it's the pinnacle when it comes.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
To Yeah, I mean that's what John was saying. I
didn't actually know what it was, especially here in New
York City. And then he showed me videos of it
and I said, you're kidding me. Am I going to
get to have gone one of those things? And he said, yeah,
that they want you to be a pirate and I
lost it. I lost my mind that night. Do you
remember that I lost it? I think I took my
shirt off and started running around naked because I was
thinking I'm going to be a pirate. And I said,
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do I get to pick out my own thing? And
John said yes, you know, you can bring your own
new pirate costume and stuff like that. I'm going to
be the captain of that ship you are, which is
a fantasy of mine, do you know what I mean?
It's a dream, it really is to be on a
floaty that is a ship and I am the pirate
that is was never on. What a brilliant character that
is too, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
And you're on the things He.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Played Jack Sparrow again. Who was the actor Johnny Depp?
Johnny Depp. He's quite an amazing guy, isn't he. Well,
the things that he's capable of. I wonder what he
smells like too, because he's very husky, like leather or something,
you know what I mean, leather and cigarettes and.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
But but that's also a huge love letter to New
York City. To be a part of that, what do
you have to say to the New Yorkers that are
going to be It's.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
My first time here, my first time in New York City,
and I think it's a very different place, you know
what I mean. The energy here is very palpable, you
know what I mean. You can feel it, you can
feel the people and the people here are very direct.
They're very direct. They'll tell you, they'll tell you if
you're doing something wrong, and they don't like it. Ala
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is a bit different like that. People are very people
are very kind, you know what I mean. People are
very kind, but you can often sometimes get messaging could
be different, you know what I mean. But New York
feels great. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
What are the smells that even picking up.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
A lot a lot of poo on the street, I've
been smelling a lot of pooh. I said that to John,
didn't we I said that spills like hang on it
smells like pooh. And he said, yeah, it's a sewer.
That's what happens when you come to New York. And
I said really, And then I started thinking about all
the irrigation in this whole city. Imagine all the pipes
with poo in them, sort of just going up and
down through the sewer system, through the ground. Where does
it go? Probably in the ocean, destroying the planet. Right
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But I'm trying not to think about that. Subject depresses me.
But you think about you flushed? How many toilets in
the city are flushing right now? I mean, it's a
crazy thing, but that's theft that I think about when
I'm walking to do an.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Interview, especially because you're smelling. It's in real time like
you're smelling in Really.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I'm smelling someone else's pooh out of their body.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
We love you, New York.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
It's okay, I love you. Are you from born and
bred here?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
No, I'm from the Bay and from I was in California.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Oh, vibes es.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
But this is home and I love New York City.
It is it is good vibes, high vibes.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
So what way do you want to come to New
York City?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
This is number one for everything right in the country?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Is it really?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It is?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Is it number one for.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
The good things?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Right? Is it number one? Would you say in your opinion?
For like the music industry and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Here in LA are definitely on par and so there's
amazing musicians that I've grown up here and came out
of here, and even a hustle here. So it's it's
really important when it comes to music here as well.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Do you miss the sunshine?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Oh? I missed the Bay.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I miss homes family right right right, I'm sure like you,
you're traveling so much, so it's it's hard to be
away from family.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
It is hard. Well, yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
But what are they saying on this journey that you've
been in barking with music?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Well, you know, it's interesting. I don't. I don't. I don't.
I'm not in contact with my parents. Yeah, and my
nan passed away this year, so last year, and so
I I really don't have so many close relatives, do
you know what I mean? But I'm used to that.
I have friends from back home and Harriget and stuff
like that, but I don't keep in touch with them
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so much. Right now, it seems like the last couple
three weeks, I've been spending most of my time with John.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Well, he's your family.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah. Well we've been sort of, you know, beasting around
doing different kinds of things, and it's been very lovely
getting to know John. Yeah, he's an interesting guy. And
we met on Craigelist, which is quite funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I found him on Crazees because I needed someone to
film to film my videos, and he's sort of just become.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
That's a pretty sketchy place, I mean, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
I asked him to be my manager. I asked him
to be my manager about two months ago. Yeah, doing
a fantastic.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Job, mister Fantasy.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Do you plan on keeping things solo for yourself or
do you plan on maybe asking people for more collabs?
Who is on the fantasy list for mister Fantasy to
work with.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Other than James Franco. I collaborate with no one other
than God, the Lord, Thy God is my main collaboration partner.
Do you know what I mean? But James Franco, to me,
is the only person I'd like to work with right now.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yeah, he's only the only one of the lives.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yeah, there is a and it has one name on
it and it's Jane Franco.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Well you've been now we're manifesting it.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, well I've been manifesting it. Yeah, I have been trying.
I've been trying to suck it up, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I mean, I love hearing how you're trying to say
so present in this very moment. How does it feel
to be mister Fantasy.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
It feels like being mister Fantasy. It feels like the
only thing I know. And I feel very lucky to
be sitting here with you talking about life and your
experience of life, with these other beautiful humans contributing the
energy into this room, and I'm a very very happy
man with a very full heart. And everyone out there
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who is listening, who has listened to my music, thank
you from the bottom of my heart. And I wish
you all the best in your journey in this life.
And I want the best for you, and I'm rooting
for you, and you inspire me, and I'm watching you
very closely. Send me a message on TikTok and I
will be watching. I will be watching. Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I mean to wrap up, how and what advice would
you give to people that aretruggling to stay present and
aspired to be like your energy and vibe.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
If you're struggling with it, as long as you're thinking
about it, if you're struggling with it, you're already winning
because you've noticed that you're struggling with it. And then
remind yourself every day to be present every moment of
the day. As you need to set alarm saying I
love you, I love I love you as in I
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love me. Do you know what I mean? Your alarm
should say I love you, stay in it, be present.
Do that. I did that for a bit too, because
I have to keep that, to keep that dialogue in guys,
if you want to change, like Michael Jackson said, I'm
starting with a man in the mirror. I'm asking him
to make a change. You have to first get out
of the old habits, throw them out. They know good
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to me, work on the new habits. But it takes work.
It takes work to do that. It doesn't just happen.
Things are just change overnight.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I'm glad that you're saying that because it's so true.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yeah, and be patient with yourself, please, I mean, don't
give you some hard time about it. Patient and love
it and lick it and sniff it, you know what
I mean. And at the end of the day, with consent, Yeah,
with consent, with permission, of course, permission to slay. And
of course, also I was going to say, I've gotten it.
I've forgotten it. I've forgotten it. That happens a lot
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to me. I get ideas, good ones, and then they
just bounce.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
They'll come back in a different way or the same way.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Yeah. Well, thank you so much for doing your Thank
you very very much.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
And your music.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
We're gonna keep waiting for those singles to drop and
drop and drop and whatever you decide to do and
the videos and your babies, so we really appreciate your
time and your energy and can't wait to see the
rest of your journey.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Mister fans, thank you so much. Can I give you
aug Yeah,
Let's help us up. I'm Crystal wil Sas.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
This is our Z one hundred Artist Interview Lounge presented
by Celsius Energy Drinks. Today there's a new name taking
over the music world, and no one can quite pin
him down. With his retro flair, hypnotic visuals and a
sound that's both nostalgic but also brand new, Mister Fantasy
has become one of the most talked about breakout artists
this year. Debut single Mister Fantasy racked up over six
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million streams, two hundred million views, and thirteen million likes
in just a few weeks, and now his follow up
single Way You Wanna is lighting up dance floors and
feeds around the world, proving that the mysterious self made
artist is.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
More than just a viral moment. It's a movement.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Featured in Forbes, Billboard, Teen, Vogue, People Magazine, and set
to perform at this year's Amaze. He's a Thanksgiving Day
Preid right here in New York City. He is redefining
what it means to build a global career completely independently.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So who is he?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Where did he come from? How did he bring Mister
Fantasy to life?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yes, pin me down. You cannot do you know what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And Krusty Lipsey will not.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
You can try. Yeah, my lift do you get quite
shopped all the time. But I told John on the
way here, I said, can you buy me some trapstick
before I go in there? And he said we're running late.
And I said, John, just do as I please, Just
do as I say. Please. No, I am very appreciative
for you. He's a very good man. John. He directs
all my videos, he cuts them up and stuff like that,
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and he's very good at what he does. Yeah, he's learning.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Except for that hat. I could do without the hat.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
What's wrong with the hat? Was that? What was that
hat with it?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's a Dodgers hat and a New Yorker and and
now born again Yankee fan.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, there's anything you want to know about John is
that he loves baseball. He absolutely loves it.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well, I want to get into you.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I mean, we want to talk about your first single
that dropped this year, congratulations, and how everyone.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Is loving it and loving the vibe and getting a
lot of positive feedback.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah. I feel it feels amazing. Yeah, I mean I
didn't really have any expectation when it came to how
it was going to be received and stuff like that.
I was just very happy to be in Los Angeles
at that point in time, which was about four months
ago when I first got had, and I was very
happy to be there and just doing what I love,
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which is to make music. And I released the song
and sort of you know when I when I I
always saw myself when I'm releasing something, it now has
nothing to do with me anymore, and the creation that
has been made is then on its way doing its
own thing. And then when I heard about all the
people that have been listening to it, yes, I felt
so happy. My heart was very full, and it is
still very full, which is why, you know, as you
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said before on the social media and stuff like that,
I want to be as as present as I possibly
can for my fans. Do you know what I mean?
I'm close and personal and that's the relationship that I
want to have with people in a general way, do
you know what I mean? Honestly, it gets frustrating sometimes
when I'm on my phone, I'm on TikTok and I'm
looking all these people because I just want to I
just want to be there with them, do you know
what I mean, but I can't, but it will have
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to suffer suffice say, do you I mean? But yeah,
that's basically I respect this. You have a great last infectious, infectious,
and your favorite color is pink.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I do enjoy pink. I do enjoy pink.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I like pink too. I like pink too.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I want to feel it back when you were growing up,
Like what were your parents listening to in the house?
Is your family listening to? Where you're getting your your nostalgia, baby,
inspiration from as you were growing up.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
My parents left at a very young age, and I
was raised by my nan and she loved music, particularly records.
She had a record play, She had a few of them.
She was quite a audio file. She loved sound and
she loved music, and we would dance about the house,
you know, before she had to move into the SENI
living and the music that she had often playing that
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I get a lot of inspiration from is like confunction, earth,
wine and fire. She loved David Bowie, she loved Johnny Cash,
Michael Jackson. I love Michael Jackson, a lot of Asis, disco,
you know, movement. When I think of that era, I
think of color, I think of movement. I think of hips,
I think of thrusting, I think of humping, I think
of licking, I think of snorting, I think of all
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of these brilliant things smiling. Do you know what I mean?
When I think about the Asies, I think a big,
big smile. When I think about the nineties, I think
more of a you know what I mean. But I
want to be a part of the music that I
want to make comes from comes from a very honest place,
and my goal with with my music is for it
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to remain authentic. My process is very sacred to me,
and I don't want anyone to be able to get
in the way of that because it's a collaboration between
me and my higher power being God. And by God,
I don't mean the sky Daddy with the golden beard
looking down upon us. I mean the great cosmic beast
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that connects all things, and that is where I get
mine operation from. And that cosmic beasts, by the way,
lives in each and every one of us. He's in you.
He's in you, he's in you, she's in you, she's
in you, she's in me. And what have we perceived
that to be is unique to us?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You said that you are really cautious about the process
of when you're making music, that you don't want anything
to interfere with that. So how do you how do
you put those boundaries up? Like, what does that look
like for you in a room?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's very simple. I don't let anyone tell me how
to write a song. I don't let anyone give me feedback.
I don't play my song to anyone. When when I'm
in the process of making my song and people say
can we hear it? Absolutely not. I don't play to anyone,
not even John. I give John the file when it's
ready for it to be mixed, for it to go
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to Flow. The only person really is Flow my producer.
Other than that, no one, and he's I've had a
very stern word with him too, to keep it very confidential.
Everything else is open. Do you know what I mean?
But that is my heart, It's my beating heart. And
when I give someone my song, I'm giving you my
beating heart. And and when you give me your beating heart,
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I'm not gonna I'm not gonna look at it and
I'm gonna say, oh, can you go back and just
make a little tweak on that. Can you go back
and change that line? Because that's who you are. Why
would I want to change who you are to work
for me. Doesn't work like that. That's what art is,
and that's what I think. The problem that we have
these days is you have a lot of people giving
feedback who, by the way, are not even practicing any
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form of art. They're up sitting in a sky tower
looking down upon everyone, saying, you must listen to my voice.
But what have you got to show for it? Mate?
What have you done right? What have you released into
the world? Have you shown me or anyone your heart?
It takes a lot of balls, you know, artists who
create and show people their hearts. It's a very very
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what's the word, It's very vulnerable and we mustn't look
past that. We mustn't look past that. And that's why
right now I'd like to abstain, at least for today,
from a label, because I don't feel right now that
I need it. I don't feel I need other voices
in my head. I've got enough as it is, do
you know what I mean? Always whispering to me in
my dreams, and I don't need I don't need that
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kind of thing. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeah, I do know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And I also want to go to what you responded
when someone asked you where mister fantasy came from. You said,
mister fantasy represents the dreams and aspirations of those who
don't believe in themselves.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Right, yes, yes, I said that. I did I say that.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You did say that.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, well that's correct, that would be correct. Yeah. No,
because I say a lot of things, you know what
I mean. I can't often keep track of it, but yeah,
that's that's the gist, and it's the gist of it,
because mister fantasy, to mister fantasy is a fantasy. Do
you understand that? It means that every song I can
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jump into another fantasy. The next song that I'm releasing,
I'm inhabiting a certain fantasy living out through the video
that I tell John. I say, I want to be
a man with no shoes who lives in a tree
with three monkeys, and he will make that happen for me.
And that's the fantasy and you can have. That's the
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thing about a fantasy, isn't it's It's it's called unlimited possibility.
Anything is possible. With mister Fantasy. We all have that
opportunity in our lives to live out whatever dream that
we want. When where kids, we're constantly fantasizing, why do
we stop? I don't know. Ask yourself that.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It's true. I think so that's exciting.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
And why do you think I go around sniffing things?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I'll tell you why. It's because I'm a very curious man,
and I want to get to know things on a
very personal level. And I often can't resist when I
see a beautiful girl like you and I'm hugging you
and I can feel your love and I smell something
What is that? And I'm now I now know you
on a much deeper level, do you I mean, because
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I've sniffed you. And I think that's why. You know,
animals connect with each other in a way, in a
much less judgmental way, Do you know what I mean?
Because because they're they're connecting with each other based off
of feel, off of touch, off of lick, off of sniff,
and mister Fantasy interacts with his life and world in
the same way if I was would you rather be
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deaf or blind?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
That's a hard one.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I don't know, that's a hard one. I think maybe dead.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, right?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Is that a lame answer?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
No? Absolutely not, that's your answer.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Do you ask you all that? A lot?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I do because I'm fascinated by the question. And I
have met, you know, people who who are aren't able
to see, and I've met people who are unable to hear,
and it's a very very interesting when you get to
hear their perspective on the way that they interact with life.
And if I had to, I would be I would
one hundred percent, hands down be blind. And of course,
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you know, we mustn't talk about it, you know, in
such a candid way like that, because people do live
like that. And it's because one, I just couldn't fathom
a life without being able to hear. And also because
imagine if you just close your eyes right now with
me and imagine that this is your reality, and now
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touch the table, yeah, and touch something else. I feel it,
sniffy air. Your sense now is you're relying upon more
of the spirit of whatever it is you're doing because
you can't actually look at it. You can't make a
judgment based off its appearance. And as human beings, we've
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been conditioned when we look at things we meet, you
make a judgment of it. And if we're just relying
on our hearing, on our touching, on our looking, on
our smelling, we're gathering more important information than we would
by just seeing something's apparent. We're getting to the very
essence of what that thing is, and we haven't made
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a judgment on what it looks like. So you're having
a very honest connection with whatever, with the world around you. Anyway,
these are the types of things that I think about
at night. Keep me up, you know what I mean.
But I'm fascinated by that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, well, the vibe of that comes out with your
music and the types of vibes that you give through
that heart, the beast in your heart with your music.
And we hear like a groove when we hear that
eighties smile.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You're drawing for us.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
So when did you decide that music was going to
be your creative art way to throw this vessel of
your insides out.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I've always been musicians. I've always been musicianus. That's always
been my my the medium that I prefer. And if
I wasn't a musician, you know what I mean, If
I if I if I wasn't a musician, I'd just
be listening to music constantly, which I already am. But
you know what I mean, Like, I just love music
and I love moving and so yeah, what was the
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question again? I forgot?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Just like, how did you decide that music was going
to be your vessel?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
For I didn't really decide it, do you know what
I mean? It's just it's just we all, we all
have a compelling activity of which is our true calling.
We all have it, and it is our responsibility as
human beings to uncover, to seek it, to find it,
and to give it to the world, to offer that
particular genius to the world, because that's what we were
born to do, I think, and by doing that, a
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lot of things follow when we do that, because we're
engaged in something that means something instead of being distracted
by other things. You know, a lot of people will
be trying to fix situations around them before, you know,
focusing on themselves, do you know what I mean? And
all we have to do is find that thing that
means something to us and nothing better than another. I
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met Kiki, you know, down the hallway and she was cleaning,
and she was brilliant, you know what I mean? And
she was doing such a good job. I said, how
have you learned how to do that so well? You
know what I mean? Everyone has a particular thing that
they're very good at that you can zone in on.
That's why I think humanity and the world is just brilliant.
I'm absolutely obsessed with it. I'm obsessed with it.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
And how do you feel seeing that your art now
is getting so much love? I mean, in just a
few weeks, the followers are going up, recognition is going up,
the love that you're giving is also coming back to
So what has that change been like for you?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah, it's been It's been great. It's been great. Yeah,
I I you know, I think it's great. Yeah, I mean,
how can I not think it's great? I mean, it's
amazing to feel validated in that way. And at the
same time, you know, I know that it is exactly
as it should be, do you know what I mean?
The music is doing exactly as it should be doing.
(13:53):
And I don't really look at how well things go.
I don't look at that kind of stuff. I'm more
engaged in where I am right now, you know, And
that's something that I've tried very very hard my whole
life to do to be present, to be with whoever
I'm with, and do not think about anything else. And
that that's something that I practice every day. I wake
up in the morning and I look at myself in
the mirror and I think yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
(14:17):
and then off, I oh, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yes in what sense?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Like?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
What does that mean to you?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Like saying is I'm saying yes to life. I'm saying
yes to mister fantasy, and I'm saying yes to my reality.
Otherwise I'm antagonistic to it. I'm following. I'm following wherever
the world takes me, and that's what I like to do.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yes, you're saying how you really protect your space and
when you create. I'm so thankful that you're trying to
stay on chap It's hard in here, too dry, so
that you try to keep it really sacred, the space
and you create. And we saw your collab with Florian Guillo.
How did that happen and why did you just decide
that was going to be someone to well?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I found him on I found him on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Cool, just scrolling.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah, and the first thing that I saw of him
was him playing the drums like an absolute primate. Do
you know what I mean? He is a monkey of
when it comes to playing drums, and by that that's
a very high compliment. And I thought, wow, he's got
the groove, do you know what I mean? He's got
the rhythm. And I didn't really know anyone else, and
I was just trying to find people on Instagram when
I first came out here that could help me with
my music. And he hadn't really produced. He when I
(15:28):
was talking to him, he said, yeah, I'm signing to
produce now. He was just playing drums in other bands
and stuff. He's a very, very highly sought after drummer.
And I said, well, I've got a bunch of songs, mate,
I've got a very heavy sack of songs that I'm
ready to work on and ready to have produce right now.
They're already written. I just want to come in. We
can lay it down and get it, get it done
and stuff like that. And it's a collaborational, do you
(15:48):
know what I mean. It's a collaboration, and you trust
the people that you work with, hopefully, but you have
to step out, you have to take a risk in someone,
but it's a general vibe. And we met and he's French,
and I do love the French, do you know what
I mean? They're very romantic beasts and they go straight
to the heart of what they're doing and they're not
afraid for a little bit of confrontation, do you know
what I mean? So I love that. And he's a
(16:11):
weird guy at the end of the day, he's a
very weird guy. I will say that. You think you think,
you know a lot of people think that I'm weird,
Wait till you meet this monkey, do you know what
I mean? He's an absolute bab boon. Yeah, Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
That's cool that you just like loved his work and
then with him and started.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah, that was a divine thing, you know. And I
believe that, you know, I was led to him by
the powers that be because his taste is absolutely magnificent. Yeah,
and the fact that he is also you know, he's
a dreamer and you hear it. You know, when I
(16:50):
give him the songs, he takes him to another level,
do you know what I mean? He takes him to
a place that I wouldn't be able to take myself,
you know. What I mean. He adds his flavor, adds
his touch, and that's why he's a great producer. And
I wish him the very best in his life. And
not that you know I'm going to depart from him
anytime soon. I will never depart from my Flowy and Flow.
(17:11):
If you listen to this, I want you to know
I love you very much, Montfree and I'll probably be
seeing you in a few days. Do you know what
I mean?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
No, I want to talk about your second single because
after your first one did really well, it's kind of
a lot of pressure to follow up with that. So
why did you pick this exact one to be your
second showcase? Why is there a lot of pressure because
if you do something really well, your hope is is
for it to go well again. Well most people, Yeah,
I know, for you, you're just working on you know.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I wasn't meaning that. Yeah, I just mean that I
don't feel that pressure and and I don't feel it
because I I the connection I have with my fans
is beyond just loving a song, you know what I mean.
It's you know, although the music is very special, I'm
not making the music for people to like it, making
(18:00):
the music because I like it. And there's a lot
people out there, I'm sure who don't like it, and
that's absolutely fine. There's a lot of music out there
that I don't like either. That's called being a human being.
And if everything we all made was brilliant, and that's
the world that I don't want to live in.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
What do you do to relax and in your own space?
Or is your world right now encompassed by music?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
And I don't really relax, do I? John, do I relax?
I've kind of just portable absolutely all the time. It's
very hard for me to sit silp uh. And I
am working on that. I'm working on that. I'm working
on that. My nan used to say to me, stop
eating so fast, you know what I mean, You're inhaling
your food. And that's just sort of the way the
(18:45):
speed in which I like to live. That's why I
wanted to come to La do you know what I mean? Oh? Man?
The place I came from, Harrogate, slow, slow, Everyone's just
drinking and stuff, you know what I mean. I love
Harrogate and I love England. The English are my favorite people.
But it's a very slow pace. You know, people are, man,
how are you doing that man. You know what I mean,
it's that the northern accent which I had to get
rid of when I moved over because I didn't want
(19:06):
to have that sort of accent. Do you know what
I mean? Not that it's bad, but I didn't want
to have that accent. Do you know what I mean?
That's not it's just like it's just like good. You know,
they talk like, you know, very very strangely.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Okay, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So you're just on the go on, the go on
the gore. Any hobbies or things that you like to
do that don't involve music.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yes, I play frisbee about once every two days. I
go out and play frisbee. Sometimes I pull John with me.
Otherwise I'm playing by myself or I usually find someone
there to play with. Everyone's usually down, you know what
I mean. If you ask him to throw a frisbee,
it's very You don't really find people to say no,
do you know what I mean? How could you say no?
Do that? But John comes out with me every now
and then when we play on the field over in
(19:49):
Griffith Park and frisbee. I love to drink coffee very much,
so coffee is my favorite thing in the whole world
other than Guinness. Other than Guinness, I think it is.
And I'm on TikTok all day. Yeah, one TikTok. If
I'm not in the studio, I'm on TikTok talking to
fans and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Do you have some of your favorite creators on TikTok
or YouTubers or streamers.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
That you've been I only follow James Franco fan pages,
you know what I mean. I don't know why James
Frago doesn't have a TikTok. I don't know why he
doesn't have one, but I follow all the James Franco
fan pages because I like to get all the recent
news and updates on stuff like that up from him.
Have you met him, I've never met him before. No,
I'd love to meet him. I mean I'm constantly talking
about it too. I just would love to meet him.
(20:31):
I think he's absolutely amazing, very inspiring character, very like
a silver back gorilla. I bet I hope he does
at least anyway, that's the that's the fantasy that I
have when I'm in bed at night, you know, sort
of thinking about Jane fragg I'm thinking about a bass
like it from silverback gorilla, do you know what I mean?
Just just just a just a beast.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It's so interesting that you smell most people that you meet.
Is there anything that you've learned about people and their
smells and connecting to their vibes.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Oh yeah, definitely, definitely. Well I'm more smell orientated, and
I will remember your smell, for example, for a for
quite a while, for quite a while. Yeah, my will. Yeah. Okay,
I don't know if that's Oh no, it's very good. Okay,
it's very good. It hit me like a ton of
bricks a Yeah, in a very positive way. And because
(21:21):
you smell very good and people smells, that's part of
who you are. Yeah, very good, I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And it also I heard that it repels or attracts love.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah, that I Well, why do you think dogs go
around sniffing stiff each other's bottoms?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Interesting?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You know, I mean, they sniff them and they licked them.
And I said this the other day, it's because they
want to get to know what is happening on the inside.
That's why they sniff their urine, and that's why they
sniff each other's poos and stuff like that. You know
what I mean. They want to They want to know
what's happening inside the body, the biology of that. I'm
very interested in things like that. Monkeys are the same way.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Did you learn about that? Like, did you study it
a little bit?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I read a lot of and I watched a lot
of natural geographic but I've read a lot about I
think there's a book called Hunt the Beast, and it
talks about many, you know, different animals in the way
that they connect to each other and stuff like that.
But animals, you know, are very interesting to me also
because they are the most similar thing to me to
like children. Do you know what I mean That they're
very unaware of themselves. If a monkey walked in there
(22:20):
would all be glued to it, you know what I mean.
You wouldn't be looking at me anymore, You'd be look
at the monkey because you don't know what's going to happen.
You don't know. And some of the great actors, like
James Franco, for example, when I watch him, it's like
I'm watching an animal unpredictable. I don't know what's going
to happen next. And actors I feel like a striving
for that. They're striving to get that because what you
(22:40):
want to have a performance where people are glued to you,
And James Franco does that. To me, I'm absolutely mezarized
by him.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Interest.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Do you think he's a good looking guy.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I think he's still a good looking Yeah, me too.
He's not my type, but I think he's good.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
He's my type.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
The interesting thing that you brought up about animals is
that they also convibe to music.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Like you see the videos of like Parents, like barbing
a Lot.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah. Absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
So when it comes to you in the world of music,
do you look super super far ahead or you try
to stay present in that as well.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
No, I don't look far ahead at all. I don't
look far ahead at all. Yeah, just one song at
a time. Each song to me is like an album.
Every time I release a song, it's like I'm releasing
an album because it's a universe. One song can be
a universe. One song is a universe, especially mister Fantasy's realm,
because I like to create a piece of cinema with
each song. I like to create a character for each song,
(23:29):
and there is a story behind each and every one
of them, and I have a full bag of them.
I'll say that a full bag.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
So when people ask you, like, do you plan on
putting out a full project or do you plan on
that's releasing one at a time, Like, what is your
thought on that?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yeah? I mean I don't know what the expectation is
to have an album When people keep asking me that,
I don't. I don't get why everyone makes albums. I
don't know why people do that. Can you tell me
why people do that?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Maybe I'll tell you. Probably why is for financial reasons,
because it sells better. I don't want right now today.
I don't want to make an album because every other
man and his monkey has made an album. I would
rather just keep writing songs, which I have many, and
release them as I please, when I please, how I please.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
What about the performing aspect of it on stage in
front of fans, how does that make you feel well?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I had my first performance on Venice Boulevard last week,
which is which is fantastic. I rocked up and I
had John sort of record me, and yeah, that was
my first performance. I'm doing another performance very very very
very soon of somewhere that is a secret place. The preparation,
(24:42):
I don't really prep I don't prep for anything I
really don't prep for anything ever. I'm prepped. I wake
up prepped.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I need to tell my boss that I.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Woke up prepped. I woke up prepped. I love that.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
And then the movie These Thanksgiving Dave Fred.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Here very excitent, Yeah, very very pumped about back.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
How did you react when you found out that you
booked that?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Well, you know, all these things come through John, and
so when he told me about it, I was like, Okay,
who's Macey? And she was saying blah blah blah, because
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I mean, it's the pinnacle when it comes.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
To Yeah, I mean that's what John was saying. I
didn't actually know what it was, especially here in New
York City. And then he showed me videos of it
and I said, you're kidding me. Am I going to
get to have gone one of those things? And he said, yeah,
that they want you to be a pirate and I
lost it. I lost my mind that night. Do you
remember that I lost it? I think I took my
shirt off and started running around naked because I was
thinking I'm going to be a pirate. And I said,
(25:42):
do I get to pick out my own thing? And
John said yes, you know, you can bring your own
new pirate costume and stuff like that. I'm going to
be the captain of that ship you are, which is
a fantasy of mine, do you know what I mean?
It's a dream, it really is to be on a
floaty that is a ship and I am the pirate
that is was never on. What a brilliant character that
is too, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
And you're on the things He.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Played Jack Sparrow again. Who was the actor Johnny Depp?
Johnny Depp. He's quite an amazing guy, isn't he. Well,
the things that he's capable of. I wonder what he
smells like too, because he's very husky, like leather or something,
you know what I mean, leather and cigarettes and.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
But but that's also a huge love letter to New
York City. To be a part of that, what do
you have to say to the New Yorkers that are
going to be It's.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
My first time here, my first time in New York City,
and I think it's a very different place, you know
what I mean. The energy here is very palpable, you
know what I mean. You can feel it, you can
feel the people and the people here are very direct.
They're very direct. They'll tell you, they'll tell you if
you're doing something wrong, and they don't like it. Ala
(26:48):
is a bit different like that. People are very people
are very kind, you know what I mean. People are
very kind, but you can often sometimes get messaging could
be different, you know what I mean. But New York
feels great. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
What are the smells that even picking up.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
A lot a lot of poo on the street, I've
been smelling a lot of pooh. I said that to John,
didn't we I said that spills like hang on it
smells like pooh. And he said, yeah, it's a sewer.
That's what happens when you come to New York. And
I said really, And then I started thinking about all
the irrigation in this whole city. Imagine all the pipes
with poo in them, sort of just going up and
down through the sewer system, through the ground. Where does
it go? Probably in the ocean, destroying the planet. Right
(27:21):
But I'm trying not to think about that. Subject depresses me.
But you think about you flushed? How many toilets in
the city are flushing right now? I mean, it's a
crazy thing, but that's theft that I think about when
I'm walking to do an.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Interview, especially because you're smelling. It's in real time like
you're smelling in Really.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I'm smelling someone else's pooh out of their body.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
We love you, New York.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
It's okay, I love you. Are you from born and
bred here?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
No, I'm from the Bay and from I was in California.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Oh, vibes es.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
But this is home and I love New York City.
It is it is good vibes, high vibes.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
So what way do you want to come to New
York City?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
This is number one for everything right in the country?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Is it really?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It is?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Is it number one for.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
The good things?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Right? Is it number one? Would you say in your opinion?
For like the music industry and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Here in LA are definitely on par and so there's
amazing musicians that I've grown up here and came out
of here, and even a hustle here. So it's it's
really important when it comes to music here as well.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Do you miss the sunshine?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Oh? I missed the Bay.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I miss homes family right right right, I'm sure like you,
you're traveling so much, so it's it's hard to be
away from family.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
It is hard. Well, yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
But what are they saying on this journey that you've
been in barking with music?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Well, you know, it's interesting. I don't. I don't. I don't.
I'm not in contact with my parents. Yeah, and my
nan passed away this year, so last year, and so
I I really don't have so many close relatives, do
you know what I mean? But I'm used to that.
I have friends from back home and Harriget and stuff
like that, but I don't keep in touch with them
(28:52):
so much. Right now, it seems like the last couple
three weeks, I've been spending most of my time with John.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Well, he's your family.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah. Well we've been sort of, you know, beasting around
doing different kinds of things, and it's been very lovely
getting to know John. Yeah, he's an interesting guy. And
we met on Craigelist, which is quite funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I found him on Crazees because I needed someone to
film to film my videos, and he's sort of just become.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
That's a pretty sketchy place, I mean, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
I asked him to be my manager. I asked him
to be my manager about two months ago. Yeah, doing
a fantastic.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Job, mister Fantasy.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Do you plan on keeping things solo for yourself or
do you plan on maybe asking people for more collabs?
Who is on the fantasy list for mister Fantasy to
work with.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Other than James Franco. I collaborate with no one other
than God, the Lord, Thy God is my main collaboration partner.
Do you know what I mean? But James Franco, to me,
is the only person I'd like to work with right now.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yeah, he's only the only one of the lives.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yeah, there is a and it has one name on
it and it's Jane Franco.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Well you've been now we're manifesting it.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, well I've been manifesting it. Yeah, I have been trying.
I've been trying to suck it up, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I mean, I love hearing how you're trying to say
so present in this very moment. How does it feel
to be mister Fantasy.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
It feels like being mister Fantasy. It feels like the
only thing I know. And I feel very lucky to
be sitting here with you talking about life and your
experience of life, with these other beautiful humans contributing the
energy into this room, and I'm a very very happy
man with a very full heart. And everyone out there
(30:37):
who is listening, who has listened to my music, thank
you from the bottom of my heart. And I wish
you all the best in your journey in this life.
And I want the best for you, and I'm rooting
for you, and you inspire me, and I'm watching you
very closely. Send me a message on TikTok and I
will be watching. I will be watching. Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I mean to wrap up, how and what advice would
you give to people that aretruggling to stay present and
aspired to be like your energy and vibe.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
If you're struggling with it, as long as you're thinking
about it, if you're struggling with it, you're already winning
because you've noticed that you're struggling with it. And then
remind yourself every day to be present every moment of
the day. As you need to set alarm saying I
love you, I love I love you as in I
(31:25):
love me. Do you know what I mean? Your alarm
should say I love you, stay in it, be present.
Do that. I did that for a bit too, because
I have to keep that, to keep that dialogue in guys,
if you want to change, like Michael Jackson said, I'm
starting with a man in the mirror. I'm asking him
to make a change. You have to first get out
of the old habits, throw them out. They know good
(31:46):
to me, work on the new habits. But it takes work.
It takes work to do that. It doesn't just happen.
Things are just change overnight.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I'm glad that you're saying that because it's so true.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yeah, and be patient with yourself, please, I mean, don't
give you some hard time about it. Patient and love
it and lick it and sniff it, you know what
I mean. And at the end of the day, with consent, Yeah,
with consent, with permission, of course, permission to slay. And
of course, also I was going to say, I've gotten it.
I've forgotten it. I've forgotten it. That happens a lot
(32:17):
to me. I get ideas, good ones, and then they
just bounce.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
They'll come back in a different way or the same way.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Yeah. Well, thank you so much for doing your Thank
you very very much.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
And your music.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
We're gonna keep waiting for those singles to drop and
drop and drop and whatever you decide to do and
the videos and your babies, so we really appreciate your
time and your energy and can't wait to see the
rest of your journey.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Mister fans, thank you so much. Can I give you
aug Yeah,
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